B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank

Delivered Tulsa 18/6/43; Alexandria 11/7/43; with Warren Virter crash landed base 17/10/43; Written off 18/11/43.

Delivered Dallas 5/7/44; Langley 24/7/44; Grenier 23/9/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG PFF fitted with tail warning radar, Amendola 11/11/44; battle damaged Blechhammer 13/11/44 with Sterling Trump; bellied in Lake Lesina, near Foggia. Salvaged.

Delivered Ogden 23/1/42; Cheyenne 2/3/42; Wayne Co. 5/4/42; RCAF Dorval 8/4/42; Goose Bay to Rejkjavik 9/4/42; to Prestwick 25/6/42 with Dillon Teel RAF [FK186]; never fitted with early ASV; 220 Sq (ZZ-S) Ballykelly 23/7/42; 206 Sq (VX-X) Bebecula 12/8/43; Azores 2/44; 220 Sq (ZZ-S) Lagens, Azores 19/3/44; Struck Off Charge 13/6/45.

Delivered Dallas 24/6/44; Langley 24/7/44; Presque Is 15/8/44; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham 22/8/44; transferred PFF 848BS/490BG Eye 25/8/44; landing accident on base with Don Littlejohn 22/4/45; transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-S] Thorpe Abbotts 1945; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Lincoln 22/8/44; Grenier 7/9/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 11/9/44; Salvaged 4/11/44.

Delivered Dallas 6/7/44; Langley 30/7/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 483BG PFF Sterparone 26/9/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Denver 4/2/44; 1SAG Langley 7/3/44; Dow Fd 24/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 25/4/44; transferred 381BG Ridgewell 26/5/44; 350BS/100BG [LN-F] Thorpe Abbotts 20/5/45; re-ass 108 BU Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 27/5/48.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/2/44; Dyersburg 5/3/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/5/42; Wayne 23/6/42; Gander-Prestwick 25/6/42 with Bob Leeward to RAF [FK209]; 59 Sq (PJ-J) Thorney Is, 31/12/42; missing on patrol from Chivenor 23/3/43 with Rich Weatherhead, Co-pilot: Bob Phillips, Willard Zapfe, George Cojocar, Bill Arnold, Clarry Copping, Rich Montgomery, Frank Spino (8 Killed in Action);

Delivered Dallas 5/7/44; Langley 28/7/44; Grenier 12/9/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG PFF Amendola 15/9/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 22/3/45 with Pilot Andrew F. Crane; Co-pilot: Paul M. Honke (2POW both strafed on way down); Navigator: George W. Betchley; Bombardier: James S. Barnett; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Donald A. Dorman; Radio Operator: Daniel P. Dunkerley, m/op Donald F. Maine; Right Waist gunner: Robert A. Keuchel; Left Waist gunner: Rae G. DeMatteis; Tail gunner: Stephen J. Fatur (8 Killed in Action); flak, two engines out, crashed Linz; Missing Air Crew Report 13248.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/45; Hunter 1/2/45; Grenier 27/2/45; Assigned as SH aircraft 602BS/398BG [K8-L] Nuthampstead 29/2/45; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/45; Hunter 1/2/45; with ? force landed Grenier 15/2/45; Assigned 8AF 27/2/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/45; Hunter 12/2/45; Grenier 25/2/45; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 30/3/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Delivered Dallas 6/7/44; Langley 1/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG PFF Amendola 13/11/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 13/11/44 with Ike Pederson, Co-pilot: Scott Draper, Navigator: Arthur Worth, Bombardier: Ray Tulwalski, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Miller, Radio Operator: Carmine Noce, m/op-Byron Martin(serious injury when ditching), Waist gunner: Jim Goodrich, Waist gunner: Theo Scott and Cpl George Barrett, of Yank magazine (10 Returned to Duty); no gas, ditched crew rescued by Italian fishing boats.

Delivered Denver 4/5/44; Dorval 16/5/44; Assigned RAF [HB796]; 214 Sq BU-T RCM Oulton, Nfk. 9/44, fitted with H2S radome in place of chin turret, plus Airborne Grocer aerial on tail and Airborne Cigar aerial amidships; Missing in Action window patrol/bomber support mission 9/2/45.

Delivered Chanute 7/6/44; 3502 BU Chanute 15/6/44; 4141 BU Pyote 14/4/47; Recl Comp 22/12/48.

Delivered New Haven 6/6/44; 3501 BU Boca Raton 15/6/44; 3505 BU Scott 10/2/45; 3501 BU Boca Raton 4/3/45; 2144 BU Moody 6/3/45; 3501 BU Boca Raton 21/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/2/46.

Delivered Dallas 14/7/44; Langley 22/8/44; Dow Fd 5/10/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 10/10/44; {11m} transferred 352BS/301BG Lucera 13/12/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/43; Tinker 5/11/43; Written off 24/1/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-R] Podington 31/5/43; Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with John Stephens, Co-pilot: Hoyt Smith, Navigator: Rudi Grum, Bombardier: Bill Moore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Shay, Radio Operator: Carl Battin{Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Max Drudge{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Bill Young, Waist gunner: George Knolle,Tail gunner: Casi Paczynski (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft damage, and further damaged by flak when limping home low over Germany, then bellied in at Holthausen, near Ramsdorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1030. STYMIE.

Delivered Tulsa 15/2/44; Grenier 11/3/44; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-B] Grafton Underwood 6/4/44; 546BS [BK-B]; Missing in Action Koblenz 27/12/44 with Elmer Nelson, Bill Horan, Marton Dobrow, Derald Melton, Edmund Zaleski, Tom Raught, Ken Rohr (7 Killed in Action); Tony Occhino, John Manicki (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Prum, Ger ; Missing Air Crew Report 11248.

Delivered Lincoln 10/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 5/3/45; {0m} transferred 5th Bomb Wing pool 20/9/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 11/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/1/46.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 92BG Podington MARY B /43; transferred 94BG Rougham /43; 339BS/96BG [QJ-O] Snetterton /43; Returned to the USA Morrison 2/8/43; Salvaged 18/9/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45. SACK TIME.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Dow Fd 26/5/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-E] Thorpe Abbotts 31/5/43; borrowed by 390BG suffered battle damaged Munster 10/10/43 with Bob Schneider, crash landed Wattisham, Sfk, UK out of fuel, and ran off runway & broke in half, but crew all OK; Salvaged 13/10/43. LITTLE MIKE.